Haiku Alpha 3 has been in development for more than 14 months. In that time more than 800 bugs have been identified and fixed, major sections have been updated, applications have been added and updated, and great progress has been made in supporting additional hardware. Here is a summary of updates, more details can be found here. Also inside, interviews with some core Haiku developers.

Is there any hope for 2D support for recent nVidia cards (the 400/500 series)? The VESA driver is great and all, but it doesn't support anywhere near the native resolution of my monitor and I'm stuck with a letterboxed 1280x1024.

Built-in Bonjour (Rendezvous) support for printing would be quite welcomed.

Also: Is WebPositive still seeing active development? It doesn't seem to have moved much in the last 6 months.

GREAT release though, despite the shortcomings to be expected with an alpha